Latest articles by Nick Evanson
OLED monitors are the perfect match for any speedy gaming PC and if you're eyeballing a new ultrawide, we've just crowned a new champion for you to consider
Ultra OLED Ultra wide, ultra speed, but thankfully, not ultra expensive.
ASRock X870 Nova WiFi motherboard review
Score: 70% Lots of features, lots of compromises.
Panther Lake revealed: Intel's pocket powerhouse is a big step up from Lunar Lake, with performance and efficiency gains all around
Little big cat But is the cost of multiple tiles and Foveros the answer to AMD's monolithic approach?
It's not Celestial, but Intel's new Xe3 GPU architecture looks like it'll be ideal for the next generation of handheld gaming PCs
news It's Intel's largest ever iGPU and big enough to put some basic dGPUs to shame.
Intel announces XeSS 3 with multi-frame generation, putting it ahead of AMD in the AI-powered graphics performance race
News Though Intel would probably prefer its GPU sales to be ahead instead.
Amazon October Prime Day UK PC gaming deals
Prime Day Deals Amazon's next sales event, Big Deal Days, is finally over, but there are still some deals worth paying attention to.
Amazon October Prime Day graphics card deals
Prime Day Deals Big Deal Days is over but Amazon isn't the only place to find graphics cards at a discount.
Amazon October Prime Day SSD deals
Prime Day Deals An SSD can do wonders for your load times and we're still seeing some great deals on them even though the October Prime Day sales have officially ended.
New MIT research opens the door to faster-charging and longer-lasting batteries, and it could be implemented right away
News This isn't some lab-only stuff, it's the real deal.
While we're still waiting for games to use Nvidia's RTX IO tech, data centres get another bit of hardware to remind us they've been using it all this time
News Like a Scooby Doo reveal, RTX IO is GPUDirect with a mask on. Well, it was.
'Are we going to bet the company's road map on chiplets?' AMD's CEO Lisa Su reminds us how fortunate it was that its executives all said yes
News 'I really do believe for tech companies, the key is you have to be best at something.'
Trump administration is reportedly planning to tariff US tech firms that don't source equal numbers of imported and American chips
News How the US chip-making industry is supposed to ramp up to the scale required doesn't seem to be part of the plan.
Tired of shader compilation screens? Microsoft is rolling out its own solution, but we won't feel the benefits immediately
News We're probably in for a long wait before it's available on Steam, GOG, and other online stores.
Raspberry has only just launched its new Pi 500+ but one modder has already improved it, making it support an external RX 7900 XT graphics card for top-tier gaming
News If it can be done, a modder will do it. If it can't be done, a modder will do it anyway.
A zero-water, zero-emissions, off-grid AI data center sounds like science fiction, but it's actually real and already running
News Forget nuclear, hydrogen fuel cells are where it's at.
Microsoft is resorting to laser etching AI-designed cooling channels directly into data center chips to tame their massive heat
News Though one teeny tiny leak and some poor technician's day will be ruined.
Yes, one line in a config file for Intel's graphics software really does say 'multi frame generation' but we probably shouldn't get our hopes up
News Though I shall completely ignore my own advice and pester Intel constantly until we get it.
DreamScene is back: Microsoft's resurrecting video wallpapers, a Windows feature last seen in 2007
News Wallpaper Engine users probably won't have much to worry about, though.
It's Alchemist, Battlemage or nothing: Intel driver support for every other GPU from the past four years moves into legacy mode
News No game-related fixes or tweaks, just quarterly security updates.
If claims about TSMC's prices for its next-gen process node are even only half right, then the best CPUs and graphics cards are going to become a lot more expensive
News Apparently, the cost for an N2 wafer will be more than 50% greater than an N3 one.
PC component maker Maxsun decides the time is right for a new motherboard format, by taking a hacksaw to an mATX circuit board
News It's YTX, says Maxsun. It's Ydidyoubother, says me.
One UK national arrested in joint-US operation is accused of being part of Scattered Spider, a group involved 'in a sweeping cyber extortion scheme' that resulted in over $115,000,000 in ransomware payments from victims
News A life sentence in prison, on either side of the Atlantic Ocean, is one possible outcome.
Milling the SSD back into sand is one way of upgrading your iPhone 17's storage and it makes a laptop upgrade look like a four-piece jigsaw puzzle by comparison
News Main difference just happens to be a casual bit of CNC milling.
